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--- a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/getspnam.3
+++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/getspnam.3
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0-or-later
.\"
-.TH getspnam 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH getspnam 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
.SH NAME
getspnam, getspnam_r, getspent, getspent_r, setspent, endspent,
fgetspent, fgetspent_r, sgetspent, sgetspent_r, putspent,
@@ -16,31 +16,31 @@ Standard C library
.nf
/* General shadow password file API */
.B #include <shadow.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "struct spwd *getspnam(const char *" name );
.B struct spwd *getspent(void);
-.PP
+.P
.B void setspent(void);
.B void endspent(void);
-.PP
+.P
.BI "struct spwd *fgetspent(FILE *" stream );
.BI "struct spwd *sgetspent(const char *" s );
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int putspent(const struct spwd *" p ", FILE *" stream );
-.PP
+.P
.B int lckpwdf(void);
.B int ulckpwdf(void);
-.PP
+.P
/* GNU extension */
.B #include <shadow.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int getspent_r(struct spwd *" spbuf ,
.BI " char " buf [. buflen "], size_t " buflen ", \
struct spwd **" spbufp );
.BI "int getspnam_r(const char *" name ", struct spwd *" spbuf ,
.BI " char " buf [. buflen "], size_t " buflen ", \
struct spwd **" spbufp );
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int fgetspent_r(FILE *" stream ", struct spwd *" spbuf ,
.BI " char " buf [. buflen "], size_t " buflen ", \
struct spwd **" spbufp );
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@ struct spwd **" spbufp );
.BI " char " buf [. buflen "], size_t " buflen ", \
struct spwd **" spbufp );
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.RS -4
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.RE
-.PP
+.P
.BR getspent_r (),
.BR getspnam_r (),
.BR fgetspent_r (),
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ the shadow password database
.IR /etc/shadow ,
NIS, and LDAP),
readable only by root.
-.PP
+.P
The functions described below resemble those for
the traditional password database
(e.g., see
@@ -93,14 +93,14 @@ and
.\" (pluggable authentication modules), and the file
.\" .I /etc/nsswitch.conf
.\" now describes the sources to be used.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR getspnam ()
function returns a pointer to a structure containing
the broken-out fields of the record in the shadow password database
that matches the username
.IR name .
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR getspent ()
function returns a pointer to the next entry in the shadow password
@@ -112,21 +112,21 @@ When done reading, the program may call
so that resources can be deallocated.
.\" some systems require a call of setspent() before the first getspent()
.\" glibc does not
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR fgetspent ()
function is similar to
.BR getspent ()
but uses the supplied stream instead of the one implicitly opened by
.BR setspent ().
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR sgetspent ()
function parses the supplied string
.I s
into a struct
.IR spwd .
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR putspent ()
function writes the contents of the supplied struct
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ as a text line in the shadow password file format to
.IR stream .
String entries with value NULL and numerical entries with value \-1
are written as an empty string.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR lckpwdf ()
function is intended to protect against multiple simultaneous accesses
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ password file.
Only programs that use
.BR lckpwdf ()
will notice the lock.
-.PP
+.P
These were the functions that formed the original shadow API.
They are widely available.
.\" Also in libc5
@@ -173,20 +173,20 @@ of size
A pointer to the result (in case of success) or NULL (in case no entry
was found or an error occurred) is stored in
.IR *spbufp .
-.PP
+.P
The functions
.BR getspent_r (),
.BR fgetspent_r (),
and
.BR sgetspent_r ()
are similarly analogous to their nonreentrant counterparts.
-.PP
+.P
Some non-glibc systems also have functions with these names,
often with different prototypes.
.\" SUN doesn't have sgetspent_r()
.SS Structure
The shadow password structure is defined in \fI<shadow.h>\fP as follows:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
struct spwd {
@@ -215,10 +215,10 @@ The functions which have \fIint\fP as the return value return 0 for
success and \-1 for failure, with
.I errno
set to indicate the error.
-.PP
+.P
For the nonreentrant functions, the return value may point to static area,
and may be overwritten by subsequent calls to these functions.
-.PP
+.P
The reentrant functions return zero on success.
In case of error, an error number is returned.
.SH ERRORS
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ local shadow password database file
.TP
.I /etc/.pwd.lock
lock file
-.PP
+.P
The include file
.I <paths.h>
defines the constant
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ T} Thread safety T{
MT-Safe
T}
.TE
-.sp 1
+.P
In the above table,
.I getspent
in